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Report: Small high schools boost graduation rates
- 06-25-2010
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Blog by Barbara Martinez/Wall Street Journal
Soon after taking over the country’s largest school system, Chancellor Joel Klein began to shutter large, failing high schools and replaced them with smaller schools. A new report released Wednesday shows how that effort has increased graduation rates for the mostly poor, minority students attending the new schools. The 160-page report by MDRC, a nonprofit research firm, found that by the end of their first year in high school 58.5% of the students attending the new, smaller schools were on track to graduate in four years, as measured by credit accumulation and passed courses. That compared to 48.5% of students in larger high schools.“ (more...)
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